# Greenmantle — Character guide

> Key figures in Greenmantle by John Buchan.

- [Richard Hannay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/richard_hannay.md): A big-game hunter turned British officer, Hannay narrates his own reluctant descent into espionage with dry nerve and a soldier's distaste for glory.
- [Peter Pienaar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/peter_pienaar.md): A lean, girl-faced Boer hunter who has crossed deserts on foot and shot men to wound, Peter is Hannay's oldest African comrade and unlikeliest ally.
- [John S. Blenkiron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/john_s_blenkiron.md): An American engineer with a ruined stomach and a genius for quiet intrigue, Blenkiron turns up in the strangest places with platitudes and hidden purpose.
- [Sandy Arbuthnot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/sandy_arbuthnot.md): A brilliant, high-strung adventurer who can pass as a native of half the East, Sandy is the mission's most gifted and most dangerously imaginative agent.
- [Ulric von Stumm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/ulric_von_stumm.md): A hulking German colonel who broke the Hereros and now runs a secret operation in Constantinople, Stumm is brutal, watchful, and easily underestimated.
- [Sir Walter Bullivant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/sir_walter_bullivant.md): A weary, shrewd Foreign Office spymaster who has aged visibly under the war's weight, Sir Walter pulls Hannay off the trenches and into a stranger fight.
- [Hilda von Einem](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/hilda_von_einem.md): She moves through wartime Constantinople as a hostess, patron, and fanatic, cultivating useful men while keeping her true purpose veiled. Hannay, posing as the pro-German American Hanau, finds her attention both flatteri
- [Greenmantle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/greenmantle.md): Greenmantle exists first as a name whispered in Berlin corridors and Constantinople bazaars, a prophecy the Germans mean to stage-manage for their own ends. Hannay and his companions chase the mystery of who or what will
- [Hussin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/hussin.md): Hussin attaches himself to the mission with quiet competence, moving through the city's hidden geography of roofs, mosques, and ledges as if born to it. When the burglary of Stumm's cabinet goes wrong, he sends the other
- [Enver Pasha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/enver_pasha.md): A Turkish military leader and ally of the Germans in the war.
- [Rasta Bey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/rasta_bey.md): A Turkish official and minor antagonist who suspects Hannay's group.
- [Herr Gaudian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/herr_gaudian.md): A German engineer and associate of von Stumm, involved in the secret project.
- [Cornelis Brandt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/cornelis_brandt.md): A Dutch trader who assists Hannay and Peter in their escape through Germany.
- [Solly Maritz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/solly_maritz.md): A Boer rebel and ally of the Germans in South Africa, mentioned in backstory.
- [Mr. Kuprasso](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/mr_kuprasso.md): A Greek merchant in Constantinople who provides information to the agents.
- [Tommy Elliot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/tommy_elliot.md): A British officer and friend of Hannay, briefly mentioned in dispatches.
- [Dolly Riddell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/greenmantle_se/characters/dolly_riddell.md): A British officer and friend of Hannay, mentioned in passing.

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